1To Thomas Jefferson from Gulian C. Verplanck, 24 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to offer a slight attempt to point out the manner in which the cultivation of the elegant Arts may be made subservient to the cause of liberty and patriotism, to the acceptance of one of the earliest and most accomplished patrons and lovers of the arts in this country and the first and most enlightened champion of our liberties. MHi .
2From Thomas Jefferson to Gulian C. Verplanck, 7 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the copy of the beautiful Address to the American academy of the Fine arts, which you have been so kind as to send me. I have great pleasure in seeing them so engagingly inculcated, and in observing, by the catalogue of articles exhibited, that so many specimens are possessed capable of exercising the eye in the study of these fascinating arts. they furnish a valuable...